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Re: Java vs C++

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On 11-02-07 11:06 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<4d50949a$0$23755$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
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>> Real C apps that will run predictable on any platform is
>> pretty rare.
>
> Really?? We have them coming out our ears. I have thousands of them
> installed on my system alone. Let’s see, the Linux kernel, 15 million lines
> of source code, almost entirely in C, portable across about two dozen
> different major processor architectures. GCC, Apache, Python, Blender (a
> million lines of C, plus about 220 thousand lines of C++), Gimp ... the list
> goes on and on.
>
You've got a very optimistic definition of "portable" happening there. 
It may come as a surprise to you, but all sorts of #ifdefs and 
platform-specific configure scripts and makefiles don't mean that you've 
got portable code - all of that is a response to the fact that you've 
got _non-portable_ code.

AHS

-- 
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a 
permanent state of what I call violent peace.
-- James D. Watkins

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Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-08 16:06 +1300
  Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 22:17 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-10 21:56 -0400
  Re: Java vs C++ Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-08 19:46 -0400

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